{"id":2532,"date":"2015-08-06T16:37:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T20:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2015-08-17T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:16:20","slug":"fantasyfreeflight-winners-1915-national-model-aeroplane-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2015\/08\/06\/fantasyfreeflight-winners-1915-national-model-aeroplane-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"#FantasyFreeFlight: Winners! 1915 National Model Aeroplane Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the Green Club, or the Illinois Model Aero Club, for winning the 1915 National Model Aeroplane Competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have received notice from the Aero Club of America that we have been awarded the Villard trophy, which was to go to the model club having the highest average in the three contests of the National Model Aeroplane Competition.\u00a0 This marks the end of a long season of hard work on that part of the members of the club, and especially on the part of Hittle, Pease, Cook, Nealy, Hitt, Hall, Schweitzer, Lucas and Lathrop, who represented us on the various teams in the different contests.\u00a0 The cup is coming to Chicago, and we hope that through our future efforts it shall remain here.<\/p>\n

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The Henry S. Villard Trophy was the prize for the winning club. (Photo credit: Phipps, Walter H., ed. \u201cModel News Column: Big Prizes Offered for National Model Aeroplane Contest.\u201d Aerial Age Weekly,<\/em> July 5, 1915)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The Illinois Model Club wants to thank Mr. Villard for offering the trophy and the Aero Club of America for organizing and carrying out the National Model Aeroplane Competition in which the cup and prize money were competed for.\u00a0 We also wish to thank Mr. Stevens, who was judge in our contests, and Mr. Dickinson for providing a place where we might hold our hydro meets.\u201d (Model News column of Aerial Age Weekly<\/em>, edited by G.A. Cavanagh and Harry Schultz.\u00a0 December 13, 1915.)<\/p>\n

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Picture: \u201cThe accompanying photograph shows a group of members of the Illinois Model Aero Club taken during the hydroaeroplane contest, the last contest of the National Model Aeroplane Competition held under the auspices of the Aero Club of America. At the right end of the picture Lindsay Hittle is shown holding his model which broke the world\u2019s record for model hydroaeroplanes. Ellis Cook is standing toward the rear in the center. The model flown by Ward Pease is the second one for the left end. In view of accomplishments this club now holds an indisputable position of importance in the field of model aeroplane activity.\u201d (Cavanagh, G.A. and Harry Schultz, eds. \u201cModel News Column,\u201d Aerial Age Weekly<\/em>, November 15, 1915.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How did your #FantasyFreeFlight club fare! \u2013 Let everyone know using the #FantasyFreeFlight hashtag.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the color coding for the other #FantasyFreeFlight clubs:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>IMAC made good on their promise to keep the Villard Trophy in Chicago – they won the competition in 1916 and again in 1919, therefore retiring the trophy to the club.<\/p>\n

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\nThe trophy is currently on exhibit at the National Model Aviation Museum along with an exhibit panel on Henry Villard\u2019s life, courtesy of the San Diego Air and Space<\/a> Museum and Allen Airways Flying Museum<\/a> respectively.\u00a0 Both will be on exhibit until September 2015.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to the Green Club, or the Illinois Model Aero Club, for winning the 1915 National Model Aeroplane Competition. \u201cWe have received notice from the Aero Club of America that we have been awarded the Villard trophy, which was to go to the model club having the highest average in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,46,54,126,81,47],"tags":[255,178],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fantasyfreeflight","category-early-model-aviation","category-free-flight","category-game-time","category-loan","category-museum","tag-fantasyfreeflight","tag-villard-trophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}